The Metaphysical Club Lib/E: A Story of Ideas in America by Menand, Louis
The Metaphysical Club Lib/E: A Story of Ideas in America by Menand, Louis

The Metaphysical Club Lib/E: A Story of Ideas in America

The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about...
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The Metaphysical Club Lib/E: A Story of Ideas in America by Menand, Louis

The Metaphysical Club Lib/E: A Story of Ideas in America

$57.35
The Metaphysical Club Lib/E: A Story of Ideas in America by Menand, Louis

The Metaphysical Club Lib/E: A Story of Ideas in America

$57.35
Author: Louis Menand
Format: CD
Language: English
Description
The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semiotics. The Club was probably in existence for about nine months. No records were kept. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea--an idea about ideas. This book is the story of that idea. Holmes, James, and Peirce all believed that ideas are not things out there waiting to be discovered but are tools people invent--like knives and forks and microchips--to make their way in the world. They thought that ideas are produced not by individuals, but by groups of individuals--that ideas are social. They do not develop according to some inner logic of their own but are entirely dependent--like germs--on their human carriers and environment. And they thought that the survival of any idea depends not on its immutability but on its adaptability. The Metaphysical Club is written in the spirit of this idea about ideas. It is not a history of philosophy but an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, a story about America.

Author: Louis Menand
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Published: 12/19/2019
Binding Type: CD
ISBN: 9781665179485

About the Author
Menand, Louis: -

Louis Menand is most well known for The Metaphysical Club, a detailed history of American intellectual and philosophical life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It received a Pulitzer Prize in history in 2002 and also received the 2002 Francis Parkman Prize. Menand is currently a staff writer for the New Yorker and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. He completed his undergraduate work at Pomona and received his PhD from Columbia University in 1980. Currently professor of English and American literature and language at Harvard, he lives between Beacon Hill, Massachusetts, and New York City.

Heitsch, Paul: -

After producing, directing, and engineering spoken word recordings for over twenty years, Paul Heitsch began narrating audiobooks in 2011, and has recorded many bestselling titles as both himself and under a pseudonym. A classically trained pianist, Paul is also a composer and sound designer, and is currently the director of music for the James Madison University School of Theatre and Dance, and an adjunct instructor for the JMU School of Music. He and his family live in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia (although Chicago will always be his hometown).



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